Most overrated Progband

Edited by diddy

My (non-aggressive but defensive!) opinion is that Marillion are a great prog band - one of the finest - that helped redefine prog in the 1980s - but lost it a bit and became boring with the assistance of "h", who I personally do not rate.

Rush, OTOH are a difficult case, so I'd prefer to say they are prog and be done with the argument. Ostensibly they are a prog metal band - but they go way beyond anything any other prog metal band has ever done, and have several concept albums, awe-inspiring technicalities, symphonic grandeur, side-long (if not longer!) epic tracks - in short, loads of prog "sensibilities".

Porcupine Tree are different again, and again, I'd prefer to include rather than exclude - but I don't find them to be progressive, more like regressive in that they simply use styles and forms from the prog bands of old rather than create a distinctive, progressive style.

Now Uriah Heep are definitely overrated as a "prog" band, IMHO. More like a (great) rock band with prog pretensions. But it's all in the mix, as they say

Mariah Carey

Not even Genesis. ELP, King Crimson have a 43 pages thread in this site, but Mariah does.

Iván

diddy wrote: Marillion is boring

RT and Cert' are right : PT is highly overrated. Indeed neither music nor vocals are interesting.

Here we go again.This topic has been done before and it was equally pointless then. 

Everyone:

I don't think this thread or the question posed by Radioactive Toy is completely pointless providing that anyone posting an opinion in this thread backs it up with a reasoned argument.

To just post "Rush", "Marillion" or whoever without giving a detailed explanation of why is pointless. But if the person posting can explain precisely why he/she has reached that conculsion is potentially of interest to me (and possibly to other readers who have only recently discovered the genre or band).

Therefore, to those of you about to post your opinion in this thread, please only do so if you can explain why (and I don't mean "because it's boring"; "it's not prog" or whatever)! Thanks.

That's basically why we stopped the last thread about "Overated" bands and crappy albums. As maani puts it; It's all "meat or poison." 

 

Just leave it alone.... If you want to trash a band, or album, write a review and support your argument.  

 

Okay, Orgies.... Love 'em or hate 'em?

Personally, I hate 'em..... they're a pain in the arse......

Every person has a very personal opinion that might crach into others, to me a highly overrated band (despite the fact that is one of my favorites) is DREAM THEATER, more than rush and marillion or even porcupine tree, and actually they are now a flag to some newcommers, so, we cannot complain about a thing like this, i rather be composing or designing and of course listening to my favorite bands

peace

Bands are only overrated by their own fans.If someone says that Dream Theater are the best band in the world I would tend to disagree.However they are entitled to think that if they want.So what is the point exactly of trying to prove some band is overated or not? Everyone has their own benchmarks for perfection.